I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Give us this day our daily faith, but deliver us, dear God, from belief.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.

You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.